"My mother used to play nothing but Billie…" — Etta James

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• I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who… — Erykah Badu
• I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's… — Erykah Badu
• I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It… — Tony Bennett
• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to… — Tori Amos
• I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max… — John C. McGinley
• Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as… — Cynthia Leive
• I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or… — Evan Rachel Wood
• I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or… — Lucinda Williams
• I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't… — Venus Williams
• I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the… — Bob Iger
• John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without… — Cornel West
• I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on… — Susannah McCorkle

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